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Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), addresses a rally against India and the US in Lahore on May 8, 2012. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife)

A Pakistani man, one of approximately 10,000 people participating in an anti-American rally, has reportedly died. The cause of death? Complications from inhaling the smoke of burning American flags, according to The Express Tribune, a Pakistani newspaper affiliated with The International Herald Tribune ("The Global Edition of The New York Times"):

One of the participants of the rally, Abdullah Ismail, passed away after he was taken to Mayo Hospital. Witnesses said he had complained of feeling unwell from the smoke from US flags burnt at the rally.

The rally is part of protests organized by Jamaat-Ud-Dawa, the political arm of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba. Protesters are allegedly insulted by America's unwillingness to punish the makers of the film "Innocence of Muslims." The protesters, demanding respect for and tolerance of Islam, threatened to destroy the U.S. consulate in Pakistan if the United States does not publicly hang the movie's producer, director, and "all those involved in the production and release of the movie" (which would presumably include Google and YouTube employees). The protesters also will not be satisfied until the United States makes a "law against blasphemy."

UPDATE:

CNN ran a piece questioning the accuracy of the original Express Tribune story. A commenter has helpfully provided a link to that video here and I've embedded it below.